Exploitation Summary
CVE-2002-1235 has been observed exploited in the wild (reported by VulnCheck KEV).
Description
The kadm_ser_in function in (1) the Kerberos v4compatibility administration daemon (kadmind4) in the MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) krb5-1.2.6 and earlier, (2) kadmind in KTH Kerberos 4 (eBones) before 1.2.1, and (3) kadmind in KTH Kerberos 5 (Heimdal) before 0.5.1 when compiled with Kerberos 4 support, does not properly verify the length field of a request, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack.
References (19)
Core 19
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_mandrake
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-073.php
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2002-002-kadm4.txt
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-185
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/2002-002-kadm4_attacksig.txt
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-183
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry
x_refsource_xf
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10430.php
Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource third-party-advisory
x_refsource_cert
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-29.html
Patch, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-184
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource third-party-advisory
x_refsource_cert-vn
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/875073
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-242.html
Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6024
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103564944215101&w=2
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_netbsd
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-026.txt.asc
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103582805330339&w=2
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103539530729206&w=2
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103582517126392&w=2
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_conectiva
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000534
Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0399.html
Scores
EPSS
0.3292
EPSS Percentile
97.0%
Details
VulnCheck KEV
2002-10-22
Status
published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux
3.0
kth/kth_kerberos_4
< 1.2.1
kth/kth_kerberos_5
< 0.5.1
mit/kerberos_5
1.0 - 1.2.6
Published
Nov 04, 2002
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026